Caching & indexing
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Which occurs first caching or indexing?
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First search engines index your website and then shows the cache. Cache is actually a snapshot of the page which search engines have indexed. They actually want to show you the copy which they've in their index, so that you can verify and if found any problem then can correct it.
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